The graduate student in architecture at the University of Michigan had just pitched the tent ... mountain's harsh conditions every day with wind chills at 20 below zero, trying to purify water ...

The record number of climbers crowding the world’s highest mountain this season ... everything from abandoned tents to human waste that threatens drinking water. Budget expedition companies ...

Thankfully, that tent was the Hyperlite Mountain Gear CrossPeak 2 ... rush forth and retreat. Water that had fallen as snow thousands of years prior returned again to water.

Here we go again' I thought as I stared into the plunge pool surrounded by stunning scenery at Mountain ... a hot pod tent, which is absolutely boiling at 60 degrees, to a cold-water plunge ...